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The article was orginally published at: The City in Your Pocket: Daily Kos Praises Istanbul’s Akbil System, Turkey’s Rail Plans
“Akbil knows the value of your kuru≈ü” (the Turkish equivalent of pennies), says this ad from Istanbul’s transit agency. Photo via ƒ∞ETT.
Besides holding more than 12 times as many inhabitants and being way, way bigger, I like to tell people, Istanbul is a lot like my hometown of San Francisco — geographically, at least. From my neighborhood on the city’s European side, I can look across the sparkling waters of the Bosphorus to the industrial shipyards and, above, the greener, more residential hills of the Asian side, a view reminiscent in many ways of that from San Francisco to the Port of O…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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